snowboy VS module-alias

Great question. This is technically referred to as "Wake Word Detection". You run a really small model locally that is just processing 500ms (for example) of audio at a time through a light weight CNN or RNN. The idea here is that it's just binary classification (vs actual speech recognition).

There are some open source libraries that make this relatively easy:

- https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy (looks to be shutdown now)

Leon uses Snowboy for its hotword detection. Unfortunately the project has been discontinued and is suffering from the lack of maintainability.

Voice recognition: Snowboy Hotword Detection - closed 2020-12-31

For step 6, setting up the wake word, the post recommends KITT.AI or Sensory, but Kitt is closing down and Sensory is not free. Do you know of any other services that are still around and well maintained?

Looks really nice and clean! Have you by chance tested out the snowboy hotword detector https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy? (Just noticed that they are actually shutting down)

hi, i just checked it and really loved the plugin, but saw that the site that used to analyze the voice to make a new hotword (https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy) got shut down at 31/12/2020, and i havent find any other place that can do that :(

But here is the thing, I want to continue to use the module-alias npm package as I find it brings better readability of the imports. I found that it requires to build a custom module loader to resolve it. I concluded that it was too much steps to achieve for a small output, then I chose to postpone the Babel dropping task. If you are interested into that specific case, there is an ongoing GitHub issue.

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